Misclassification of Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Endoscopy of Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) is a unique disease with increasing interest for many physicians due to its unusual etiology, histology, and epidemiology. The recent era of fiberoptic endoscopy now provides the clinician with better tools for the screening, diagnosis, staging, and follow-up of NPC. The use of high resolution flexible and rigid nasopharyngoscopy gives the physician an opportunity fo...

Pancreatic cancer mortality and misclassification--bayesian analysis.

BACKGROUND Pancreatic cancer is a fatal cancer with a 5-year survival of only about 4% for all tumors. Mortality is a familiar projection to address the burden of cancers, but according to the Iranian death registry, about 20% of death statistics are still recorded in misclassified categories. The aim of this study was to estimate pancreatic cancer mortality for Iranian population, using a baye...

Nasopharyngeal Cancer Treatment

An Assessment of Spinal Cord Dose Following Radiotherapy of Nasopharyngeal Cancer by TLD and Rando Phantom

Introduction: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is one of the most common malignancies in the head and neck region and radiotherapy is its treatment of choice. In spite of the fact that it is widely used, due to the presence of many sensitive organs or tissues in this region, patients may suffer from a wide range of side effects. One such sensitive tissue is the spinal cord. If the absorbed dose to spin...

Chemotherapy in Advanced Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Drs. Ali and Al-Sarraf have prepared a comprehensive review of current data on the role of chemotherapy in the management of nasopharyngeal cancer, a tumor of epithelial origin with a distinctive geographic and ethnic distribution. Although this disease has traditionally been categorized as a head and neck neoplasm, its natural history and responsiveness to therapy differ considerably from thos...